Notable Quotes

"In a few weeks, I'm going to release our annual Department of State Report on Human Trafficking and that report probes even the darkest places, calling to account any country, friend or foe, that is not doing enough to combat human trafficking.  Though many complain, the power of shame has stirred many to action and sparked unprecedented reforms.  Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling and we will never subjugate it to the narrow demands of the day."

-------Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State

"The disturbing tendency to treat prostitution as a business or industry not only contributes to the trade in human beings, but is itself evidence of a growing tendency to detach freedom from the moral law and to reduce the rich mystery of human sexuality to a mere commodity."

-------Pope John Paul II

"Likewise, for those of us who are in position to do something to combat human slavery, however small our contribution, neutrality is a sin."

-------Inspector General Joseph E. Schmitz, Department of Defense